GREENVILLE, OH – Antoinette Marie (Anne) Bootier, 97, originally of Saratoga Springs, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, October 16, 2015. Anne was married for 54 years to Harold Lee Bootier, Sr. Harold and Anne retired to Florida in 1980 from upstate New York. In recent years Anne spent a great deal of time working with the children at Emmaus Learning Center in Greenville, Ohio, which she greatly enjoyed. A prolific knitter, Anne never let her age slow her down, taking up painting at 93 and learning to use an iPad at 95. She faced every challenge with the attitude of “I can try” and she passed that persevering spirit on to her children.
In addition to her husband Harold who passed away in 1993, she was predeceased by her sister Helen O’Connell and her brothers Richard and Louis Agosta.
Anne is survived by her sisters Jean Brooks and Sally Van Orden, brother Emmanuel “Gus” Agosta Jr. as well as her five children, Mary Lamb (Frances), Carol Leonard (James), Harold “Bud” Bootier Jr. (Karen), Karen Akers (Paul), and Peter Bootier. She is also survived by her nine grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren in addition to several nieces and nephews.
Relatives and friends may call from 10 to 11a.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 at the William J. Burke & Sons/Bussing & Cunniff Funeral Homes, 628 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Funeral services will be following at 11 a.m. at the funeral home and burial will follow in St. Peter’s Cemetery, West Ave. in Saratoga Springs.
